#9629 feature: Apply metadata rules increasing order of specificity Issue created by edgarrmondragon ### Feature scope Configuration (settings parsing, validation, etc.) ### Description Currently rules are applied in the order that they are declared in

meltano.yml

. This means that the order is meaningful and users have to spend time thinking about the specificity of their rules and manually sort them. Meltano should do this automatically under the hood. ## Related • Negated rules seem to override even rules that come after them: #6401 • #9630 meltano/meltano